Review
List of Review articles
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Antony Starr as Homelander in season 5 of The Boys. ‘The Boys’ Turned Superhero Satire Against American Politics
The series has been the most on-the-nose fictional take on Trumpism so far.
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Senior military officers sit in the audience before U.S. President Donald Trump addresses them at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. The Book About the U.S. Military That Everyone Should Be Reading Now
Kori Schake’s ‘The State and the Soldier’ is the discussion on civilian control of the military that this moment requires.
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Alia Shawkat as Fayruz in Atropia. ‘Atropia’ Takes on the War on Terror
For a movie set 20 years ago, it has a surprising amount to say about today’s wars in the Middle East.
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A medium close-up of two young boys standing in a tropical jungle. The boy in the foreground wears round glasses and a tan undershirt with suspenders. The boy behind him has curly hair, wears a tan button-down shirt, and holds a long, forked wooden staff. Other boys are visible in the blurred background. A ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Our Time
This is the perfect project for the creator of ‘Adolescence.’
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A man pushes his bike through debris in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 6, 2022. War Is an International Crime. Why Does It Go Unpunished?
A sweeping legal history reveals how the international community failed to live up to the promises of Nuremberg.
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A person on a waterfront promenade holds a long, vibrant red dragon streamer with yellow characters painted on it. In the background, the sun sets behind a dense skyline of modern skyscrapers. There’s No Need to Fear China’s Economy
Beijing can’t easily afford to escalate any economic struggle with Washington.
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American conservationist and biologist George Schaller makes notes on the skull of a Marco Polo sheep during his expedition to the Wakhan Corridor of northeastern Afghanistan. A Foreign Correspondent of Animal Kingdoms
How a headstrong field biologist helped birth the worldwide conservation movement.
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A very large, greyish-brown pig smirks and reclines comfortably against a wooden crate. To the right, a much smaller pink piglet sits upright on a stack of colorful wooden crates, looking toward the larger pig with a smile. A Confused ‘Animal Farm’ for a Confused Time
What the latest Orwell adaptation says about our politics.
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A man wearing a harness floats in a spacecraft. ‘Project Hail Mary’ and the Politics of Science Fiction
Even the most entertaining tale carries a political message.
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A photo illustration of Elizabeth Bathory, a castle, and a butcher's knife. The Real Origin of the World’s Most Famous Female Serial Killer
A new book explores the geopolitical scheming that created the blood countess legend.
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Adam Scott as Ohm Bauman in Hokum. ‘Hokum’ Is Haunted by Ireland’s Dark History
A new horror film reckons with the country’s buried sins—and the women erased by them.
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The shells of midrise residential buildings covered in scaffolding rise up against a clear blue sky. In the foreground are colorful tents and booths of vendors lining a street, where cars and vans pass by. Can Africa Follow Asia’s Development Model?
An economics writer known for his work on Asia turns his eye toward the fastest-growing continent.
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An illustration shows three people in a small wooden boat on a turbulent sea, facing a massive whale that is partially transparent, revealing its skeleton. One person in the boat holds an oar, another holds a harpoon, and a third watches the whale with a hand on their head. Decolonizing ‘Moby-Dick’
Literature’s obsessive quest for anti-canonical adaptations pursues the white whale at its peril.
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An up-close portion of the Riverwalk apartment building is pictured as gray clouds loom to the left. Did London’s Dirty Money Really Kill a Teenage Fantasist?
Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” is a mystery that turns into a tragedy.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, wearing a dark overcoat and patterned scarf, smiles as he tips his gray fedora toward Ronald Reagan. Reagan is seen from behind in the foreground, wearing a dark suit. The two leaders are standing on a light-colored gravel path next to a black car. The Charisma Wars
Why personality now trumps policy in global politics.
